There was just about only one thing to say right then, as Dragon saw the massive tank rolling out of the barn.
And it had a gun.
"Crap."
She leaped into the air, somersaulted twice, and snapped open her wings. She circled over the building in which all the fighting was going on, guessing that pretty soon there'd be fighting going on out here.
Luckily, metal melts. And that thing couldn't fly.
...Could it?
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SEZ YOUR COMPU-TAR TASTE LIKE CHIKIN
"No, I need to get to the top of the temple." Darkvapor said, gasping for breath.
"Please, it's imparative I get this up there." he said, revealing the metal contraption.
Xabu's localized Power Sink shut off the moment the faults and tremors began. And was it just an optical illusion, or did the place suddenly appear to be filled with billions of identical stumbling figures?
The image flickered out quickly though, and then Kaega charged in with his sword. That's when he learned that although his physical bloodlust could cut through solid steel, intangible energy fields were not steel. He might as well have just swiped at a river.
And additionally, using a metalic weapon against an electrical foe was a VERY bad idea...
The second his blade touched the torrent of energy, it became magnetized and unless Kaega had a very good grip on the weapon, it was going to be flung out of his hands due to the polarization. Assuming he held onto the blade, every volt of electricity in the room was about to be conducted through it and directly into HIM.
Still, it shortly became obvious Xabu was thinking rather than attacking. He had a sapped but still potentially dangerous Jonas, a ground-breaking Fraenir, and some bloody (stupid) psychopath slicing at thin air with a conducter. That and with everyone running around, Xabu was having a hard time conducting a proper battle plan.
Kaega's arm jerked as the sword became polarized and jerking in a way his arm wasn't supposed too. Kaega kept his hold on the sword and let out a blood curdling scream as the electricity flew up the sword and into his arm.
Kaega slumped towards the ground. "Is that it? The great warrior slain by a little lightning?"
Kaega levered himself off of the ground. "If a physical blade of this world doesn't work, maybe an immaterial blade of another world will."
Kaega held Arget infront of him. He let his mind go blank. He reached toward something dark within himself, within the blade. "Well Sparky, time to play."
Locking onto that darkness all humans have within them, Kaega drew it out onto the physical plane. The metal of the blade began to glow a pale blue as the metal seemed to first waver then simply dissappear. What was left in it's place was a shining, white, energy blade.
Kaega swiped the blade through the air sending a power wave toward Xabu.
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The Darkin had slipped into the barrier between this world and the next to escape the power sink. That didn't mean that it couldn't affect the physical plane. All it had to do was reach out.
The Darkin stretched out his right hand, penetrating the veil between worlds. He aimed for an area of the ground hoping the speeding brute would make the mistake of stepping wrong. The Darkin fired off a round of sticky darkness akin to tar at the targetted location.
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
((oh that does it...sorry build, and sorry grey but bladewing is gonna use full power on this one....will edit it things turn nasty but a kat/sr scrapper isnt what bladewing is supposed to be in an RP))
Bladewing watched the entire scene from above, hovering at least ten feet over the melee, still holding his blackened katana, and glowing with the energy of keeping its power from consuming everything within a several mile radius.
"So the energy giant can move at about the speed of light and happens to be able to shock a sword user if his sword is metal.
"well lets see how he does with a sword that is most definitly not metal, and will bring his advantages to an end."
Bladewing dove at Xabu, seeing as the energy being was shocking Kaega, and not paying attention to what he obviously considered "small fry".
Screaming in exertion, Bladewing released the final seals on his blade and swung it through Xabu.
Normally this would have been a bad Idea and resulted in Bladewing being electrocuted, but this blade wasnt made of metal....It was the forged form of THE signularity, a blade with infinite gravitational pull, infinite mass when swung, and paradoxically almost no weight whatsoever.
On contact the blade did what black holes do, and sucked Xabu up faster than a hoover sucks up a dust bunny, All of Xabu's speed, all of his energy were worthless against the insatiable hunger of a black hole.
As Xabu faded from sight Bladewing sighed, harboring no illusions that Xabu was dead, to truly kill the husk lord Bladewing was sure he would have to sacrifice all his energy and cause the sword to detonate after absorbing Xabu. Doing that would cause an expolsion on a scale of magnitude not able to be measured in mortal or immortal terms, and Bladewing had no intentions of wiping out the entire solar system just to kill one enemy.
"You, dear sir, are a legend. "- nelly. "PIE DOESN'T HAVE TENTACLES!"
Bladewing Draconian lvl 30 KAT/SR scrapper
DarkNinjutsu lvl 50 DM/REG scrapper
Dajoji Hino lvl 50 elm/ela scrapper
Bloody Byakko lvl 20 claws/sr scrapper
((still in Brazil, but finally have some downtime- if I'm understanding correctly, it's just Xabu fighting... well, pretty much everyone... right now? I'm going to post with that understanding, if that's screwed up, I'll edit))
As Xabu sped around, Jager Horowitz had been lunging around the room like a kitten chasing a piece of string, with shouts of "Hyu schtupid... *OOF*"... "Vy hyu leedle... *SPLAT*"... "Hy'm gun... *CRUNCH*", apparently being totally unaffected by the power sink or the bone-splintering crashes against the various walls, the floor, and occasionally the ceiling. Unfortunately, he wasn't having much effect either, although if he actually managed to grab Xabu, the electrical wonder would regret it amazingly quickly. Whatever the case, he didn't seem like he'd be giving up anytime soon.
Energon X, meanwhile, was dancing a fine line of Zenlike concentration as he let his energies build in response to the Husk Lord, without losing control. The instant it became an option, Xabu was going to be getting a faceful of exotic energies that would detonate like supernova channeled through some impossibly vast magnetic tube into a single, cohesive beam, scrambling his extradimensional being and blowing him through the thick concrete walls, and potentially clean off the island.
The Blaster was fast- impossibly fast- but not on Xabu's level for speed. That being said... it wouldn't take much slowing on Xabu's part for E-X to draw a bead on him and blow him away.
((So, for the moment, Diov, I'm leaving it up to you whether or not Xabu gets slowed enough for Energon X to blast him- but the blast-start is up to you (as is Horowitz potentially grabbing Xabu). Of course, if you put it off too long, everyone's going to have to run...))
"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head." Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates
MA Arcs: #12285, "Small Fears", #106553, "Trollbane", #12669, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"
((A: Xabu isn't a Husk Lord.
B: Did you miss the giant black hole that Bladewing just conjured? I will remind you all that gravity affects everything, not just my character.
Additionally, he just auto-hit me with that-Which means for you to be attacking Xabu right now, you'd have to be aiming at Bladewing.
C: The reason I'm quote, 'Putting it off' unquote is because I was waiting for others' reaction to said auto-hitting black hole of absolute doom.))
((black hole sword of absolute doom ! ^_^...and while it is a black hole I just spent absolutely ALL my energy making sure that Xabu is the only one affected in a possibl lethal way...any meta with even a shred of strength left "should" be able to resist the pull...now the ground underneath Xabu and the building we are in....well..<_<...lets just say that our host is going to need some construction crews and some new interior decorators.))
"You, dear sir, are a legend. "- nelly. "PIE DOESN'T HAVE TENTACLES!"
Bladewing Draconian lvl 30 KAT/SR scrapper
DarkNinjutsu lvl 50 DM/REG scrapper
Dajoji Hino lvl 50 elm/ela scrapper
Bloody Byakko lvl 20 claws/sr scrapper
((Good thing he's got those to spare. Hm... Maybe I won't wind up going blood drunk like the rest after all...))
My Stories
Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
((I never got to use my shining sword of painful cutting 
))
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
--Brother Mauthe's Island: The Temple Entrance--
"Oh!" the guards visibly relaxed, "Okay, well, there used to be a staircase, but it crumbled some time ago... Here..."
He tossed Darkvapor a key.
"There's a storage shed next to the staircase, there should be a ladder inside you can use. You probably coulda' blasted the door off, but we kinda like to keep that door there."
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--Down the Street...--
The Freak Tank swiveled at the dragon, but Bioserj was shouting at him. Chaingunnz turned just enough to see the Russian pointing at the rapidly imploding common building.
"Lots of lightning!" Serj shouted, "Like Ragin' James!"
"Ah jeez!" Chaingunnz turned the treads back down the trail, "You gotta go and ruin all my fun, don't ya?"
"Stop saying that!"
Chaingunnz grumbled something in reply, but went back on his course. He stopped outside the comon building and took note of the various people popping out of it.
"Hey Peebee," he grunted at Power Breaker, "You bringin' trouble with ya again?"
"Yeah..."
"Heh heh, that sucks, man."
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--The Common Building--
Kipland disconnected the medical teleporter from the wall, cradled it in his arms, and tore for the hole in the wall that served as the exit. The fact that everything in the room seemed to be dragging toward the strange blacker-than-black sword in the middle of the room (that may-or-may not be stabbing into Xabu), and the fact that his feet were slipping a little as he walked, he figured it would be a good idea to run.
He didn't do anything stupid like trying to throw the heavy machine out the hole he'd come in. Instead, he jumped out first and dragged it behind him. It rolled like a log and made a horrible crunching sound when it hit the grass.
By this point, a small crowd was developing. Nearly twenty of the local security force, led by Brother Skrap and Brother Hand, were closing in on the Common Building.
"Fantastic," Hand shouted at Kip, "I hope you had a good reason for that!"
"You guys know a good tinker," Kip shouted back, "Better to keep it busted than lose it entirely..."
Some of the wall fell inward to illustrate the scrapper's point and prompted him to start running away from the local vicinity. A couple people from the crowd assisted him with the machine.
"Get that thing set up!" Hand shouted as they carried it to the next building, "No idea whether or not we'll need it..."
"If ya' ain't got a gun in-hand, then you don't belong here," Brother Skrap added, "Don't worry folks, we'll have this situation handled in due time..."
My Stories
Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
Xabu, who had been running at under the speed of light, didn't even have time to register something was wrong before the sword sucked him up. All the other assaults directed at him, missed. Unless they were aimed at Bladewing, in which case, all they would hit would be the blaster.
After he figured out what was happening? There was going to be hell to pay. And unfortunately, he figured it out not a moment after being sucked up.
A voice that could have been Xabu's boomed about, the difference being it was multi-pitched and layered. Like multiple synchronized voices.
'OH NO YOU DON'T! TWO CAN PLAY THIS GAME!'
And suddenly, the blacker-than-black sword changed colors.
From pitch-black to smoldering red. That could mean only one thing. Light was escaping the pull of the black hole, which, in turn, meant it something was very very wro-
The sword exploded in a torrent of energies as Xabu, running faster than the speed of light, erupted from the sword like a rocket. The pull of the black hole slowed him down to a point where he was clearly visible, and as a matter of fact, it was slowing him down so much that he was just 'really fast' as opposed to 'impossibly fast.' It wouldn't be too hard for anybody who was fast enough to hit him now.
Assuming they could navigate past the tremendous explosion of energy, and the temporal and spacial disruptions being caused by an object traveling FASTER than light in the nearby vicinity of an object that warped gravity. It also shortly became clear that very soon, things were about to get REALLY messy REALLY fast, and it would be all over the place. Both in the literal and metaphorical sense.
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Of course, just accomplishing a task was much easier said than done. In the time Build had taken to even glance at Conlin and deliver that simple statement, hundreds of stunning rounds had already impacted the wall directly behind him. It had been a sheer miracle they had all missed, and more kept coming. The pistols were fully automatic, and there were more guards joining the fray every second.
Jonas and Conlin had a huge obstical in their way: The multi-dimensional crowd of varied species. Some of them were as large as houses, and ticking them off was not advisable. Furthmore, they now had a rather thick ring of guards surrounding them from all sides, pistols out and blazaing, thousands of stunning shots heading right for them.
The door that Build and Conlin wanted to head through was still there in plain view, a mere two hundred meters away with around three dozen pairs of guards between them and it, not to mention a few hundred multi-dimensional ccreatures standing in neat orderly lines.
((oh....diov I really hate you when you do that...ah well, next time I will just have to make sure you cant counter it...well at least Poe isnt as fast as xabu.))
"You, dear sir, are a legend. "- nelly. "PIE DOESN'T HAVE TENTACLES!"
Bladewing Draconian lvl 30 KAT/SR scrapper
DarkNinjutsu lvl 50 DM/REG scrapper
Dajoji Hino lvl 50 elm/ela scrapper
Bloody Byakko lvl 20 claws/sr scrapper
((I wouldn't bother. You should know by now that Diov will write himself out of any troublesome situation, even if it wouldn't work. 
))
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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((BAH!))
"You, dear sir, are a legend. "- nelly. "PIE DOESN'T HAVE TENTACLES!"
Bladewing Draconian lvl 30 KAT/SR scrapper
DarkNinjutsu lvl 50 DM/REG scrapper
Dajoji Hino lvl 50 elm/ela scrapper
Bloody Byakko lvl 20 claws/sr scrapper
Kaega side stepped a whipe of energy as it sizzled through the air were his head was. He held up his blade of pure energy for a tenth of a second before his body's natural defences kicked in. He began to bob and weave his way through the multitude of energies toward the speeding Xabu.
"What's wrong nano-second man? Getting slow in your old age?" Kaega laughed as a beam of energy ripped into the upper portion of his right arm. He brought his energy sword down through the air creating a rift in the dimension. He stepped through appearing infront of Xabu.
He took on the Dragon style offensive stance as he performed a basic thrust toward Xabu.
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Build nervously smiled. "Hey uh. . . guys? Yeah guys will work. Wanna see something cool?"
Build tapped a button on the inside of his right wrist. A panel opened on the underside of his arm releasing a Force Feild Generator. "That's part one, here's part two!" Build pressed a button on his tactical belt, activating his Group Teleportation feild.
Build, Conlin, and what was left of their small army was instantly relocated to within 2 feet of the door. As they reappeared, they both broke into a headlong sprint for the waiting node.
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
"Thank you." Darkvapor said, giving a slight bow before making a mad dash for the storage shed at speeds that would make Olympic track runners gape in awe. The Dark Lord covered the distance in remarkable time, and quickly got to climbing the temple.
((Nice to see you're following this Devious. Diov and I already discussed this, and it's probably about the best outcome we could have gotten. I'd expect Xabu to be having some really messed up internal problems at this point, but it's better than being spaghettified. Then we would have had to deal with the eventual aggravations as Husk Corp retaliates...
...
Now that reprisal is merely postponed.
Dammit.))
My Stories
Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
((Not to mention Build and Conlin are probably gonna pop up around Brother Mauthe's Island (depending on how many more wrenches Diov throws at me). . .bringing a bunch of Husks probably.))
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
((Eh, it's been a slow weekend on the boards; thought I might as well see what's going on in here. That and the new robot nearly made mincemeat outta me, so I'm staying hell away from that lab for the time being. 
Gave me some time with zip to do.))
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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((Someone isn't very optimistic I see.))
And that was that.
Xabu, although a brute, had a very large glaring weakness.
His literal glass jaw.
Kaega's blow with his special sword was all it took.
The world froze. There was a giant whooshing noise. The dimensional distortions, the waves, the lances of electricity, every last bit of energy that had been spiraling and whirling around like a hurricane imploded into a single point. Xabu.
Standing in the middle of the imploding maelstrom, the various runes on Xabu's armor were glowing bright red, and kept on getting brighter. The giant himself appeared to be clawing at thin air. A million cracks of pure light seemed to spread across his frame as the red runes overloaded.
His armor cracked.
It crumpled itself into a little compact trash-ball, before being blown away into dust, leaving only a howling figure that appeared to be made of pure energy behind. This figure continued to claw at the air about it. While it SHRUNK.
Mere seconds later, the figure had gone down from fifteen feet to fifteen centimeters, and after that, Xabu was gone, taking all the energy in the vicinity with him.
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Location Unknown
A light on the monitor went up.
"NOW he sends a signal? Noit, go take care of it." Poe said.
Motnahp nodded gloomily and faded into thin air.
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Bad news for Build and Conlin. They couldn't use the node! The moment they had stepped into it a calm voice had said something about Essence Signature-But it was over. They had lost. Any moment now hundreds of guards would swarm them-
Nothing happened. The door leading into the room had snapped shut the moment they had entered.
"So...." Said a voice.
A figure seemed to ooze and melt into the pairs' vision.
"How do you two fine gentlemen know Poe, and what are you doing here...?"
The man asked the question in a friendly enough tone, although he appeared to be slightly annoyed.
((O.O...build...you and colin are really in trouble now))
"You, dear sir, are a legend. "- nelly. "PIE DOESN'T HAVE TENTACLES!"
Bladewing Draconian lvl 30 KAT/SR scrapper
DarkNinjutsu lvl 50 DM/REG scrapper
Dajoji Hino lvl 50 elm/ela scrapper
Bloody Byakko lvl 20 claws/sr scrapper
"Uh?. . .There is a really good explanation for this," Build said looking from the figure to the Husks, who just seemed to have stopped.
With that Build told the whole story, from getting the ooze to their eventual arrival at Husk Corp.
"I don't know who you are. . .but is there any possible way you could help with sending us home?" Conlin spoke with a reflective, somber voice.
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
Anyone Poe was trying to send to Mathue's Island would find teleporting there directly quite impossible.
There was basically a bubble around Mathue's Island cutting it off from the rest of the world. Someone teleporting there would get the equivalent of a busy signal on a telephone.
Unfortunately for the motly crew on the island, the bubble would collapse soon if Darkvapor didn't install his device atop the temple. Furthermore, if someone was really intent on getting on the island, there was a slight chance they might break through the shield, but the process would likely expend most of their energy.
Darkvapor looked up at the apex of the temple. Just how tall was this bloody thing?
At the same time Fraenir's fist hit the floor Kaega's sword made contact with the outer wall of Xabu's energy neatly cleaving through the electrical discharge. Kaega roared wildly with laughter as he shouted at Xabu.
"It seems I underestimated your abilities. If you are done playing with the Darkin, how about a challenge?"
Kaega's body reacted on it own. Over the years Arget had absorbed the bloodlust of countless species of warriors so much so that it had become tangible, and when needed could release this force at a foe with enough power to cleave steel. Arget lashed out of its own accord aiming for the electrical dirvish.
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad